Exam 5: Parenting Young Children: Decisions and Realities

Studies find which of the following trends true for less-privileged parents?

Discuss how parenting expectations over the past 75 years have become increasingly child-centred.

Neo-liberal political ideas stressed collective responsibility and greater community concern for social ills.

What was the outcome of the case where a British Columbian father was ordered by child welfare authorities to stop letting his four children, aged seven through eleven, take a public bus to school?

"Baby Einstein" videos are an example of the popularity of which trend in parenting advice?

What are the negative consequences of intensive parenting for children and parents?

In the context of parenting advice material, which of the following terms is best described as the advice that forefronts the needs of children and positions children's needs to opposition to those of parents?

Explain how parenthood is a social construct and not a fixed reality.

Research by Lareau (2002, 2003) found that while children whose parents engaged in concerted cultivation tended to display a growing sense of entitlement and self-confidence that would likely help them succeed in later life, they had more difficulty with which of the following?

How did "new brain research" shape parenting advice and expectations in the 1990s?

Who wrote the ground-breaking book on the historical construction of childhood titled Centuries of Childhood?

As a result of evolving parenting advice, lessons and enrichment classes of various sorts for young children grew much more popular among the middle class during which decade?

Glenda Wall, the author of Chapter 5, concluded which of the following from her research on parenting advice from the 1980s and the 2000s?

Why are middle-class parents more likely to adhere to intensive parenting than less privileged parents?

Studies show that mothers today spend much less engaged, one-on-one time with young children today than they did in the 1970s when the majority of mothers of young children were not in the workforce.

Overall, recent research on the sociology of the family embraces the idea that both parenthood and childhood are social constructions.

How is social capital connected to expectations and understandings of parenthood?

Which of the following is not a way that contemporary parenting experts suggest parents build resilience in their children?

What are the core assumptions of the ideology of intensive parenting?

As the author of this chapter, Glenda Wall, describes her own research on parenting advice from the 1980s and 2000s, her findings suggest that expectations of motherhood have remained consistent throughout these decades.